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August 2016

August 23, 2016
From The Hill:  Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's new campaign CEO, previously accused Catholics of supporting...
August 23, 2016
Details:  Exasperated by nearly two months of defiance of a court order to supply details...
August 23, 2016
Details:  The number of Americans who identify as Catholic has shrunk in recent years, and...
August 23, 2016
The folks at Pew have some insight, from Catholics and others: About half of U.S....
August 22, 2016
From the Facebook page of the Quincy, MA police department: On Sunday, August 21, 2016...
August 22, 2016
He made the announcement late today on his Facebook page: A Message About The Jim...
August 22, 2016
In a continuing series, The New York Times has been asking notable people: if you...
August 22, 2016
Details via KGO-TV:  Officials are searching for an ancient, religious artifact that was allegedly stolen...
August 21, 2016
Details:  The first communion Mass in Alqosh was an historic moment for a "frontier town"...
August 21, 2016
Details from The Record, from the Archdiocese of Louisville: Eighteen men with a wide variety...
August 20, 2016
I received an email this afternoon from a graduate student at Purdue University by the...
August 20, 2016
He died today of pneumonia at the age of 80. Many will remember him as...
August 20, 2016
This is just wonderful: Go to NBCOlympics.com and you’ll find a video titled “Fiji rugby...
August 20, 2016
If you’ve been watching the Olympics down in Rio this year, and the endless television...
August 20, 2016
This item in The Boston Pilot caught my eye this morning: Six candidates for Ordination...
August 19, 2016
From CNN: For years, the Jabara family says, their Tulsa neighbor terrorized them. He called...
August 19, 2016
From India:  The head of the Syro-Malabar Church Cardinal George Alencherry has appealed to the...
August 19, 2016
Deacons at work in Santa Clarita, California:  Every Sunday in July, Deacon Jay Reiser greeted...
August 18, 2016
From the online magazine Verily, a bracing and candid bit of counter-culture witness from Claire...
August 18, 2016
Details: A Catholic school in Arkansas is getting a lot of attention online after posting a...
August 18, 2016
From The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh must focus on “better homilies,...
August 17, 2016
An excerpt:  What would the ordination of women deacons mean for the local churches? For...
August 17, 2016
Many will remember this post from last week. That story caught the eye of a...
August 17, 2016
Details:  Most Islamic State recruits know little about Islam or hardly care about religion at...
August 17, 2016
From CNS:  Pope Francis has named Bishop Kevin J. Farrell of Dallas to head the...
August 16, 2016
From The New York Times: John McLaughlin, a former Roman Catholic priest who became an...
August 15, 2016
By now, you may have seen this commercial that popped up during the Olympics and...
August 15, 2016
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the great Usain St. Leo Bolt:  On the...
August 15, 2016
From his thoughts today, for the Solemnity of the Assumption: Pope Francis on Monday expressed...
August 15, 2016
As a priest at our parish put it Sunday in his announcements: "This year, the...
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